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Brazilian artists Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo (also known as ‘Os Gemeos‘) and graffiti legend Futura have just completed an 80-feet-high mural on the wall of a New York school. The project was driven by New York-based creative studio AKANYC and street art website 12ozProphet with support from Nike (tying in with its World Basketball Festival) [...]

This charming short film produced by Everynone to promote NY public radio explores the world of wordplay. Expect it to ‘inspire’ a creative team shortly… The film, by Daniel Mercadente and Will Hoffman, promotes the Radiolab segment on WNYC. Some of the allusions may be just a tad forced but overall, it’s a thing of [...]

Why do we like the things we like? How do our social, cultural and aesthetic values combine to prompt us to declare ‘I like that?’ There are all kinds of factors that contribute to our liking of anything – whether it be a piece of music, art, a photograph, a film or a piece of [...]

Music Philosophy is a weekly project by designer Mico Toledo – who unites his love of music and typography, in the creation of illustrated song lyrics. Toledo takes lyrics from songs he enjoys listening to and produces an illustration that incorporates (as a general rule) a variety of typefaces. The Music Philosophy website was launched five months [...]

A new show from Brooklyn-based artist/designer Scott Albrecht re-presents popular sayings using second-hand and found materials Albrecht’s hope is that  “If we could only isolate ourselves from how we perceive these phrases, and experience them literally, as if for the first time, we might actually find that they have the potential of expressing something truly [...]

China’s ten-year Cultural Revolution is now generally regarded as a great tragedy in which countless thousands died. A new book brings together extraordinary images of an extraordinary time. From 1966 until Chairman Mao’s death in 1976 over 800 million Chinese took part in mass upheaval that pitted children against parents, country against city and peasant [...]

Hot on the heels of the graphic design showdown between Neville Brody and David McCandless on Monday’s Newsnight, we’ve noted a first infographic tribute. Posted on mrlerone.com, it details the specifics of the stand-off, comparing hair, beards and glasses, among other key issues… For the full version of Comparing Brody and McCandless is Beautiful (be sure to [...]

Back in 2007, director Vincent Morisset reinvented the music video online, with his interactive promo for Arcade Fire track Neon Bible. For the band’s latest album, The Suburbs, Morisset has now turned his attention to how digital music files could be more visually exciting…   Morisset has worked with designer Caroline Robert to create a [...]

So what’s this all about? Well, turns out that long established Soho record shop, Harold Moores (specialist in classical and jazz releases), is closing for a re-fit. In order to prepare the shop for its revamp, staff are chucking out thousands and thousands of records (well over 20,000 by my reckoning) – which were dumped, rather [...]

The subject of graphic design rarely makes the national media in the UK, so it was with some surprise that we noted a segment on the BBC’s Newsnight programme last night. Particularly as its subject was the previously arcane world of data visualisation. After a filmed report on the emerging influence of data-driven imagery - both [...]